Islamists have made Trump the hero of propaganda video

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Islamists from the terrorist group Al-Shabab, the Somali branch of Al-Qaeda, released a propaganda video that contains a record of a statement by US presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for a Muslim ban on entry into the United States.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which studies propaganda of jihadists, the video is designed to attract an African-American audience to support terrorism, writes The New York Times.

The video, a 51 long minute, consists of excerpts from speeches by an Islamic preacher and a fighter for the rights of African Americans, Malcolm X and unnamed white racists, as well as shots from black Americans against the police brutality; there are also blacks showing Muslim prayers.

A significant part of the video is the speech of Donald Trump, mounted on the recordings of the speeches of Anwar al-Awlaki - a US citizen, one of the leaders of Al Qaeda, who was killed in Yemen, 2011.

“Yesterday America was the land of slavery, segregation, lynching and the Ku Klux Klan, and tomorrow it will be the land of religious discrimination and concentration camps,” al-Awlaki says in the video.

Then follow Trump's words about banning Muslims from entering the United States and shots featuring the slogan of his election campaign: “Let's make America great again.”

After that, al-Awlaki again appears in the frame, reporting, pointing his finger at the camera, that "the West will eventually turn against its Muslims."

The video ends with a terrorist saying that all disadvantaged Americans have only two options: either leave their homes or go out and fight “for the cause of Allah”.

As the “Forum” wrote, during one of his speeches Donald Trump urged to ban Muslims from entering the US. His opponent from the Democratic party Hillary Clinton said that this video can be used to attract Islamists to the terrorist organization “Islamic State”, however, she could not provide any evidence of its use.